On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Bob W wrote:
Overall, what I see is that you need to get closer ... use more
intimate distances ... with your people shots.
It'd be easier if I could figure out which bloody framelines I was
supposed
to be using, and if the M8 respected the framelines properly. With a
35mm
lens on the body it brings up a pair of framelines which confuse the
hell
out of me, they're so similar. It's also optimised to be accurate at
quite
close focal distances, so if you're focussed some way away you get a
lot
more on the sensor than you framed for.
When I used the Leica M (M4-P and M6 TTL were my favorites) as my
daily shooter, I would normally have only one lens or two widely
disparate focal lengths with me. I used auxiliary viewfinders most of
the time, even for 35 and 50mm lenses ... and of necessity for the
28mm since I couldn't see the viewfinder's framelines for that focal
length at all due to my glasses.
I just got in the habit of framing loosely with it, and working with
whatever I got. ;-) It's very different from working with a TTL
viewing camera and prepared me for the Hassy SWC very nicely (the SWC
viewfinder only shows 88% or so of the actual field of view and has a
lot of curvilinear distortion ... doesn't matter, you get used to what
the lens sees and use the viewfinder only as a guide).
Godfrey
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